Text 28164, 30 rader
Skriven 2009-02-26 04:39:54 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 28032 av Brian J. Morgan (101470.fidonews)
Ärende: Retainment bonuses aka co
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Replying to a message of Brian J. Morgan to Roy Witt:

 BJM> -=> Roy Witt wrote to Michiel van der Vlist <=-

 MvdV>>> the family to pay the hospital bill. My aunt - wife of the Dutch
 MvdV>>> ambassador in Washington - would have died without my father's
 MvdV>>> money.

 RW>> Your uncle probably wasn't familiar with the procedure in paying the
 RW>> bill. Stall them long enough and they write it off and you pay
 RW>> nothing. In turn they deduct the charges from their income tax and
 RW>> that's the end of it.

 BJM> In some places it can be done in a not-so-shady way.  For example,
 BJM> OSF St. Francis Medical Center here in Peoria will treat those who
 BJM> can not afford to pay and the Sisters of St. Francis will pay for
 BJM> that treatment.  It's as simple as filling out a 1-page request
 BJM> form.

 BJM> But you are correct that lack of money does not mean lack of care.

I've been saying the same thing for years.  And that has been the case in this
country for well over a century.  But the people who want to nationalize the
health care system - under whatever label they're currently pushing - keep
suppressing that fact.  Left wing rhetoric to the contrary, people are not
dying
in the streets of the US due to a lack of health insurance.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+
 * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)